Improvement in suspenders



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Suspenders.

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UNITED S'rAEs ATENE OFFICE.

JOSEPH WILLIAM SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BAY STATESUSPENDER COMPANY, OF SAME IJLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDERS.

Specilication forming partof Letters Patent No. LIGASG, dated January13, 1874; application tiled November 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J osErH WrLLrAM SMITH, ot' Boston, Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in Suspender Ends, of which the followingis a specication:

In the drawings, A is a piece of web, with the button-hole B near one ofits ends. C is a metal plate, bent into the form shown, and secured tothe suspender end A by the enlarged parts lying on each side of it,A andby the connecting portion extending through the buttonhole, as shown inthe drawings; and it may be further secured by small projections fromthe plate entering the web and clinched, as indicated in the sectionalfigures. Then the web is folded, as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, theraw end is so clamped between the two enlarged portions ot' the plate Athat it cannot ravel, and thus the expense of binding the raw ends issaved. This is also true when the plate is formed and applied as in Fig. 5./ The plate C is made of thin sheet metal, and, when ready for use,consists of two enlarged parts connected together by the shorttrough-like piece which extends through the button-hole. After it isinserted the two enlarged parts are pressed toward each other and rmlydown upon the web, so as to cover the raw edge, as shown.

. "Thetrough-like connecting-piece which extends through the button-holenot only aids in hold- `ing the plate securely, but also prevents thewear of the button-hole. On the other hand,

the enlarged portions of the plate not only serve to prevent the rawedge from, raveling, but also serve to keep the trough-like portion ofthe plate, which extends through the buttonhole, in its place. i

I am aware that metal plates bent round and securing the ends of. wovenfabrics are well known, (see Letters Patent to Sharp and Seymour,November G, 1,866, No. 59,465,) and also that metal shield-pieces orprotectors for the ends of button-holes are well known, (see Englishpatent to A. Johnson, No. 949 of 1871,) and I do not claim to havediscovered either ot' these.

My invention consists in the combination, with a suspender end, of aplate which performs the function performed by the Sharp and Seymourdevice-2'. @protects the edgebnt is secured to the suspender .end in amaterially-different and better manner by a connecting-piece whichpassesthrough the button-hole in the suspender end, and in such a waythat it also performs all the functions performed by the Johnson device.

That I claim as my invention is The combination otl the suspender end A,having a button-hole, B, with the plate O, when constructed and arrangedtogether as described, and so as not only to strengthen, but also toprotect, the edge, as described.

JOSEPH WVM. SMITH.

Witnesses:

J. E. KNOX, HENRY W. HOLLAND.

